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V ROOK ABOTTS. 1 n Pa FIFTY-KIGHTH YEAR. NO. 94. THE ARGUS. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1909.TEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS, GOVERNOR GILLETT AGAIN LABORS WITH LEGISLATURE FREE-FOR-ALL-FIGHT IfJ OUR U. S. WEATHER PROPHET AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT U.S. WfeATHfcJi I -N. I II I i it(. tiih In Another Message He Reconsideration 1 -' of Enactment. Urges BEARING ON JAPANESE Quotes From the President's Telegram Telling of . Seriousness. Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 5. Governor Gillett today sent a message to the legislature requesting that body to re consider the vote by which the bill re lating to the Japanese was passed yes terday. The governor quotes Presi dent Roosevelt's message of last night, saying the bill is most offensive, and asking for Its defeat or veto, and says: Kb titled to Coanlilrratlon. "A telegram so forcible as this com ing from the president of the United States is entitled to full consideration and demands that no hasty or ill-considered action be taken by this state which may involve the whole coun try." Should Take Broad View. The governor counsels the legisla ture to take a broad, unprejudiced view of the Important question involv ed In the proposed legislation, keeping in mind the interests of the nation as well as the state. Moat OITrnxlve of All. Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 5. With the defeat In the lower house yesterday of two of the anti-Japanese measures, followed by the unexpected passage of a third bill segregating Japanese school children in separate schools along with Chinese, Koreans, and other Asiatics regarded as the most offensive meas ures of alLjPresldent. Roosevelt again "Mslaken a hand in the anti-Japanese legislation that for the last week has drawn international attention to Cali fornia. I President Wire Governor. Hardly had the bill been passed by the assembly before Governor Gillett received the following message from the president: "Washington, D. C. Feb. 4. J. N. Gillett, Governor of California: Your kind letter just received. What is the rumor that the California legislature has passed a bill excluding the Japan ese children from the public schools? This is the most offensive bill of all, and, in my judgment, is clearly un constitutional, and we should at once have to test it in the courts. Can it be stopped In the legislature or by veto? THEODORE ROOSEVELT." The governor at once sent a reply, the nature of which he declines at this time to make public, and he requested from the president an immediate ans wer. Pending the receipt of another telegram from President Roosevelt, Governor Gillett declined to discuss the action of the assembly. Against Japanese Children. The bill passed yesterday, which was one of three anti-Japanese measures introduced by Assemblyman Grove L. Johnson, places the Japanese on the same classification with other Asiatics, and inserts the word "Japanese" in the present state statute providing for the. segregation in separate schools of Mongolian children. By this action the lower house of the California legislature has taken the step which the board of education of San Francisco intended to take two years ago, but which was abandoned after the board and former Mayor Eu gene E. Schmltz were called to Wash ington, and had several conferences with President Roosevelt. At that time it was contested by the Japanese that they were not Mongol ians, and they resented the efforts to place them In the same class with the Chinese, Coreansand other Asiatic races. The question was also raised whether under the law, the segrega tion of Japanese school children could be enforced in the absence of specific" mention of the word "Japanese.' Upon the return of the delegation from Washington, the San Francisco school board contented itself with the adoption of a rule limiting the age of pupils that would be permitted to at tend the lower grades of the public schools, one of the principal objec tions to the Japanese being that adults were attending the primary grades and in daily association with white children of tender years. Was Most Unexpected. The passage of the Japanese school segregation bill was unexpected after the defeat Wednesday of Drew's anti alien land bill, which was generally believed to foreshadow the rejection of all the measures aimed at the Jap anese. The defeat yesterday of. two more anti-Japanese bills added to the surprise occasioned by the vote on the school segregation bill. WOMAN TRIES TO KILL MR.BROWKE Minority Leader in the Illinois House Sought for by Hysterical Female. 77 ( Mf i Ji J) fee system in bank examination, creat ing the office of chief examiner with a salary of $3,500 a year. It is provided that this official shall be allowed to name his assistants, and he and his assistants are prohibitei from accepting any emolument, gratu ity, or. other consideration from th banks and from entering into any bus iness relations with them. BUI by I.aadee. Senator Landee introduced the bill drawn by the commission appointed by the preceding legislature to revise the schools acts, this measure propos ing a codification of all school laws. Other bills will be introduced to rem edy defects in the school system. SLATER SISTERS WAY LEAVE CITY District Court in Davenport Withholds Decision in Unusual Insanity Case for Present. I'VE JUST GIVEN MY WEATHER FORECAST FOR TOMORROW TO THE PAPERS. NOW, I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT SORT OF WEATHER WE ARE TO HAVE, FOR I WANT TO TAKE MY SWEETHEART; TO THE THEATER. Springfield, 111., Feb. 5. Lee O'Neil Browne of Ottawa, minority leader of the house of representatives, was the object of an attempted attack yester day by a mysterious woman, whlca was thwarted by employes of the as sembly. "I want to see Lee O'Neil Browne,' said she. "I want to- kill him. Let me in." The angry words caused the door keepers to act promptly; and as slw mounted the platform on the floor of the house she was taken in charge by Michael Giblin, stenographer of the minbiltyr and forced out of the hall. She was hustled into an elevator and taken to the ground floor. Her cries rent the air and it was with difficulty that she was taken out of the ea.it door. The whereabouts of the woman, whom Browne says he does not know, is worrying friends of the minority leader. , BLACK RUNS WILD BUT IS SHOT DOWN PICK TWO OTHERS Miners Elect E. S. McCullough Vice President and Edwin Perry Secretary. SECOND BALLOT IS COUNTED Another Tumultuous Day Put In, Pres ident Being Unable to Pre serve Order. the officers of the Indiana district for having disobeyed an order that the miners should return to work in. the Hudson mine pending the adjustment of the strike there. This was essen tially a reversal of the convention's action a few days ago. in approving the course of President Lewis and the executive board in their general action in this matter, and indicates that the delegates will pass some sec tions of the organization's interpreta tion defining the authority of the na tional government in Its relation to the district government. - ' TORNADO HITS IN THE SOUTH, KILLLING MANY Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 5. Reports have reached here that a cyclone Btruck Booth.' Miss., this morning, kill ing six people and destroying much property. , Memphis Negro Fires Repeatedly Into Street Cars and Houses, but Fn- ally is Slain. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 5. Following a daring holdup on a busy thorough fare yesterday, Henry Morton, a negro armed with a revolver and with pock ets filled with ammunition ran wild. He fired repeatedly into street cars and houses and at pedestrians, and terrorized a section of. North Mem phis before he was shot to death by police and citizens. After relieving another negro of a bundle of hides Morton endeavored to force a trade with a produce dealer at the point of his pistol. Failing, he sent a confed erate to dispose of the booty, but both escaped before the arrival of the police. A riot call brought a squad of police, who were joined by several score of citizens, and Morton finally was corraled on a porcn. At bay the negro continued to fire upon his pur suers, tout his bullets went wild, while a volley from the pursuers put an end to the battle. Four rounds of unspent cartridges were found in the pockets of the dead negro. MAY HALT CHANNEL Legislature Unlikely to Take Action on Deep Waterway as Result of Court Act. Indianapolis, Feb. 5. E. S. McCul lough of Bay City, Mich., was elected vice president of the United Mine Workers, and Edwin Perry of Oska loosa, Iowa, secretary-treasurer on the second ballot taken yesterday, the re sult being announced today. Is a nay of Turmoil. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 5. Yester day's session of the convention of the United Mine Workers of the United States and Canada was one of turmoil and bickering. President Lewis charged Delegate Peter Quinn of Illinois with having practically called him a liar. The par ticular uatter under discussion was the administration of the strike in Alabama. Lewis declared that Quinn would have to modify his statement or he would have him put out of the convention hall. He said he "had stood for the insults of this man long enough." The stenographic record of the debate was read, but the incident did not develop further. Rewrites Former Decision. The convention adopted a resolution that the national executive board had exceeded its authority in suspecting FRANKLIN, PA., HAS PITTSBURG- LIKE) SCANDAL Franklin, Pa., Feb. 5. Following a 10-day investigation of charges made against certain officials of the county poor farm and others, the grand jury returned indictments against six per sons today. Owing to the prominence of some of the accused and the start ling charges made, the matter has caus ed a sensation. FIGHTING ON BRADLEY WILL Contest Involving $3,000,000 Estate Started at Peoria. Peoria, 111., Feb. 5. The contest over the will of the late Mrs. Lydia Bradley, involving an estate . worth $3,000,000, has begun. James A. Cam eron, acting for T. B. Holmes, yes terday filed the suit to break the will of Bradley Polytechnic institute, W. W. Hammond, manager of the Bradley estate; the city of Peoria and about 200 heirs to the Bradley millions as defendants. . While the suit Is brought in the name of Bruce Holmes," Mr. Cameron stated that over 100 of the heirs were interested in it and would narticinfite Jackson, Miss., Feb. 5. A telephone ln the proceedings in favor of break- Dean Clark Will Not Leave. Champaign, 111., Feb. 5. The Uni versity of Illinois will not allow Stan ford university to lure away from the local faculty the dean of the under graduates, Thomas Arkle Clark, by an offer of more salary. President James yesterday issued a statement that Dean Clark has consented to remain and this m- A, 3 that he has been prom ised a largv. increase. Stanford of fered him $4,000. FATAL FIRE IN AN ORPHANAGE IS BELIEVED TO BE WORK OF INCENDIARY Battle Creek, Mich., Feb. 5. There Is a widespread belief that the fire which destroyed the Haskell memorial orphanage early today, when three children lost their lives and several others were Blightly hurt by jumping from the windows, was caused by an Incendiary. The orphanage was found ed by Mrs. Haskell of South Bend, Ind., as a Seventh Day Adventist institution but had passed out of the control of the church and has recently , been maintained by private subscription. Have Been Other Cases, Following the recent schism in the Adventist church, a number of build ings of the denomination have been damaged by fires which have been gen erally charged to Incendiaries. - Judge Barker ia the district court in Davenport yesterday afternoon en deavored to secure an adjustment of he unusual insanity case involving the Misses Emma, Martha, Lillie an 1 Mary Slater, and has withheld his decision in thecase pending develop ments that may result in a satisfactory settlement of the case. The judge proposed to have two of the sisters, Mary and Lillie, taken to Mercy hos pital for mental and physical treat ment, and to allow the other two to remain at home. The sisters rejected this plan, but suggested that the court allow them time to dispose of their home, and permit them to go to Ohio to make their home with relatives who are willing, they said, to take care of them. Judge Barker will decide when an aunt of the women arrives from Ohio. A commission will be appoint ed to handle their interests in case it is decided to dispose of the prop erty and adopt the suggestion the four sisters offer. Zechs and Germans Pum mel Each Other With a Will. BITE, KICK AND STRIKE Premier Gives Ud Effort Transact Business and Adjourns. to Vienna, Feb. 5. The present session of the Austrian parliament came to an end this morning after an extraordin ary scene of turbulence between Ger mans and Czechs. I'Krd DruiiiM and Whistles. Radical Czechs obstructionists, wno have been hindering debate for sev eral days with a continuous din from drums and tin whistles, so exaspera ted the Germans this morning the op posing deputies came to close quarters and a fierce scrimmage ensued. One of the radical Czech deputies was cap tured and whipped until he howled for mercy. Another Czech was bitten by a German on the cheek and sus tained an ugly wound. Black eyes and sore heads are numerous. Come Together Again. The premier, seeing the uselessness of attempting to pass legislation, clos ed the session. The departure of the ministers was followed by another free fight, in which the opposing factions rushed upon one another to the strains of revolutionary songs and wild con fusion reigned for half an hour. NO DECISION GIVEN IN TIME SPEC,AL MUS,C A FEATURE Number of New Bills Presented, One for. Codification of School Laws by" Landee. Male Chorus Will Sing at Y. M. C. A. - Meeting Sunday Afternoon. There will be special musical at tractions at the men's meeting at the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoon in the form of a male chorus and several in strumental selections. Rev. S. G. Hagglund will deliver the address of the afternoon and will take as his topic the statement "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ." Hope Thompson will address the boys at their regular Sunday afternoon meet ing and his talk will be followed by a series of interesting stereopticon views. All the members or tne drop- in bible class are being urged to be present if possible Sunday afternoon at 4:30 to renew the interest in the class and to greet the teacher, Mr. Fisher of Sears, who has been away several weeks. Tomorrow evening there will be a phonograph concert at the association parlors, to which the public Is invited. U. G. Simpson will be in charge. Springfield, 111.. Feb. 5. Deep water way legislation probably will not be secured at this session of the general assembly. Action by the supreme court yester day in extending time for filing briefs in the navigability suit quite likely means that the legal status of the Des- plaines river will not be determined before late in June. The present session may hold out until that late date, but there was more talk last night of finishing up the business and taking a recess, as was done last year, and because of the same tangle over the deep water way. Faees Desperate Crista. There 'is some reason to believe that Senator Hopkins will face an' ui"vi vv.ov.i tiioio u iuc ucauiuttv I nnlataYi f Tf tat v a iiAnTll next week. Congressman Lorimer andUrMUP LUduO IN inn. NUnln other party leaders who were not ia DEATH BLOW FOR RACING ON COAST California Senate Passes House "Making Track Gambling a Felony. Bill Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 5. Racing In California received a vital blow when the senate yesterday by a vote of 33 to 7, passed the Walker-Otis anti-race track gambling bill which prohibits pool selling, bookmaking or gambling on horse races. The violation is a felony punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary and a heavy fine. The bill having already passed the assembly, it will not go to the gov ernor for his signature, after which it will become a law. Governor Gil lett has signified an intention to siga the measure if passed by both houses. Springfield this week, are expected here next Tuesday, and something de finite likely will be determine(f on re specting the breaking of the deadlock or an attempt to do that. Senator Hopkins, meanwhile, be lieves that he will be able ta weather the storm next week. He has told some of his friends that he expects to be re-elected next week, but at this time it does not seem possible. A few of the Hopkins leaders now have the idea that if they get through next week without a general smash-up they can prolong the deadlock indefinitely and keep any other candidate out of the Job. Personnel of Commltteea. The personnel of two committees as County Choice Measure of Anti-Sa- loonists Defeated in Minnesota. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 5. The anti- saloon league law known as the coun ty option bill was overwhelmingly de feated in the house of representatives yesterday. The vote came on a reso lution to adopt a minority report on the matter, which was in favor of the bill, the result of the vote being 44 to 3. The bill was then indefinitely postponed. MEN'S SOCIETY HAS ELECTION Herman Landack Chosen as Leader by German Lutherans. The young men's society of the German Lutheran church last night elected the following officers to serve for one year; President Herman Landack. Vice President Walter Fude. Recording Secretary Fred Kruse. Financial Secretary Charles Kutz. Treasurer Ralph Fude. Yesterday in Congress message received here this afternoon states a tornado struck the town of Rolling Fork, Sharkey county, with 1,200 inhabitants, today, and that four persons were killed. Stuttgart, Ark., Feb. 5. A storm struck here today, killing two persons' and injuring a number of others. -V I ing.the will...'. . . .. Undue influence on the part of Oli ver J. Bailey, W. W. Hammond, Albion W. Small, and the late William Rainey Harper, president of the Uni versity of Chicago, .is given as the main cause for the 'breaking of the AMERICAN FLEET SHOWS INCREASE IN BATTLE EFFICIENCY IN GUN TESTS Washington. D. C, Feb. 5. An in- crease in battle efficiency, the greatest yet made during any one year, is the story told by the scores of battleships fleet practice in Manila bay. This, too, although the conditions oT the practice last fall were more difficult than here tofore. ,. The improvement with heavy guns was over 100 per cent greater than that otlhe year before. - i , These facts are shown by the rec ords of battle practice in Manilla bay. received by Commander Sims. inspec: " will,, while mental weakness he stated, tor of target practice, by whom they I to be another. " " j have been tabulated. Washington, Feb. 5. Following is a summary, compiled from the official proceedings, of the work of both named by Speaker Shurtleff yesterday houses of congress yesterday: IS as IUlluws: I norSR The forest service o-nt Its Appropriations Shanahan.- chair-1 US"!' annual drubbing, the criticisms , . orvintt,o1 ,-m j Ti iuimi Bsmnm 11 cumins principally i rum air. man; Smejkal, Glade, Dudgeon, Kittei. 8m ltn of California. Mr. cook of Color- man, Kecky Zinger, Kirkpatrick, Me-fcdo and -Mr. Mondell of Wyoming, all Mackin, Behrens, Sollitt, Campbell, i',.0. 1 uiiiiiBiiaiiuii auu 111c rAiui nun j l 111 1 1 Adkins, Hamilton, Lawrence, Fulton, ley from miners, farmers, and even the Pervier. Parker, Lewis, York, Ireland. ?ne8 bSTUi . ... I ted to Mr. Pinchot, the chief forester UUiespie, trice, .lpr, urace, Temil.lthe ulterior -motive of scheming for Bureett Stavmatea. MeLatiehHn r.r. I Secretary Wilson's seat in the cabinet. . , , .... 'lBoth Mr. Pinchot and the forest service wan., iviunai, iiiiisuii, caigiiau, n. were vigorously defended by Messrs. Wilson. Geshkewlch Clark. Corcoran. I Mann of Illinois and Weeks of Massa- Gorman, J. Groves, Donahue, Kaa- tV.V , .T.r " ST nally, De Wolf, Dillon, Nay lor, Ether-lis consideration was about two-thirds ton Wheelan - . . . compieieo wnen, me nouse at o:zu p. m. Judicial Apportionments Crawford, I - senate The monotonous tones of chairman; Flannings, Stearns, Durfee. rfad,ln cllrfcofw?,h1e 5nat a e . , " labored through the bill of more than Chlperneld, Cliffe, Logan, Bush, Scan- 100 pages) making appropriations for lan McMao.kin. RehrenH Hnllpnhpolr. the District of Columbia constituted the r.,ff Tnxio d,k..i, tti4 icnier feature ln tne proceedings of that Butts, Reynolds, BrownbackHoladay,' body, There was an evident intention Robinson--Shaw, Alschuler, Luke. Bo- on th part of the minority to lengthen n :'nroioii AKrekam. t?e tjioi.lthe time necessary to dispose of the " w measure, it being the only obstacle to Beckemeyer, Laniz, Browne,. H. . A. Ian executive . session for the further Shenherd : ' 1 consideration of the nomination of Wil- I nam u. Crum to.be collector of cus. Meaaare ta Create Cfclef Exatnlaer. 1 toms at Charleston. S. C. On the demo Icratic side there was a persistent de- . , ,, , , , . . .mand for the most' careful reading of senate following the joint session, the bill and occasionally members of Spnntnj. Sgmim! A mf alonn Muot..l the minority became involved in a. snir- of which they were not informed until the measure drafted after the 01 " ""--" tu occiicj cuiuuc juai ue- mem OI Vaier Bank. Examiner CasSiUS measure, wnen me senate adjourn fore going on the range. ' . - Jones, This bill seelu. to abolish the The average percentage of hits made by heavy guns was over 50 per cent of the shots fired, and some ships made from 75 to 80 per cent. The in crease is rapidity of hitting was con siderably over 100 per cent. The ranges at which the? battleships fired were from 0,000 to 9,000 yards, according to the power of their guns These ranges were unmarked and the ships steamed on a course at a speed MOLINER STRUCK BY TRAIN and John Schaum Seriously Injured May Die. , John Schaum of Moline was struck by a Burlington train this morning at the First street crossing in Moline and seriously injured. He was taken to the hospital where it is feared that he will not" live. "Drys" Overcome Tennessee Veto. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 5. The bill prohibiting the manufacture of intoxi cating liquors in this state was passed over the governor's veto in the houe by a vote of 59 to 37. The law goes into effect Jan. 1, 1910. Attorney General Dtad. Marietta, Ga., Feb. 5. Howard Van Wyke, former attorney general of Wis consin, died here yesterday of dropsy. COLD WAVE 0.1 WAY TO ARRIVE EARLY IN UEEK Washington, ' Feb. 5. "Cold wave coming" flashed the weather bureau today in an official warning. The pres ent period of mild weather, according to the bureau, will be followed br cold wave that will appear jn the north-r west Sunday or Monday and advance over the central valleys and lake re felon Monday and Tuesday. ; ' -